Word: gauls
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...Like Gaul, all Harvard is divided into three parts, of which the Yard, containing the Freshman dormitories and most of the college classrooms, is the oldest. North of the Yard are several graduate schools and the laboratories and museums. Stretching to the south, down to the river, are the seven houses of the upperclassmen, while across the Charles are the Business School; tennis courts, soccer field, and Soldiers Field...
...gloomy chateau at St. Gilles in eastern France, Johannes Thomasset, a gentleman farmer, spare-time poet, Francophobe and "passionate lover" of all things Germanic, dreamed of Burgundian knights of old, of Gundicar and Gunderic, who, coming from Germany, carved a kingdom for themselves in the bosom of degenerate Gaul. In the summer he pruned his grapevines, hunted Germanic relics on his land, and penned iambic attacks on the Latin descendants of those Gauls who finally crushed the flower of Burgundian knighthood...
...resulting from a "motor accident"; former Premier Edouard Daladier, former Ministers Georges Mandel and Yvon Delbos were "at sea" on a ship long overdue and missing-according to Berlin. The only Frenchmen heard from were those willing to play Hitler's game, for Hitler's Gauleiter of Gaul was practical, nonliberal, Italophile Constitution-Maker Laval himself...
...Like Gaul, U. S. Jewry is divided into three parts: Orthodox, Conservative and Reform. Orthodox Jews are the fundamentalists, who observe intact the Mosaic code and dietary regulations. Reform Jews are the modernists, who largely disregard the old traditions, believe in religious evolution. The Conservatives are middle-of-the-roaders. Last week, with the future of Jewry in Europe darker than ever, two of these U. S. branches met in Michigan for rabbinical conferences, voiced clearly what was troubling Zion in the world's No. 1 Jewish country. At-Charlevoix, 130 members of the Central Conference of American Rabbis...
...descendants of the men who had conquered Britain and Gaul were expected to listen to these taunts and be grateful. Now, thanks to Mussolini, they have recovered the circumstances in which the martial glory, inherent in this long-abused race, can display itself as never before...